Dahan first prince

Chapter 384: Farming North Korea?
"Yu Zi?"

Just over a month after the promulgation of the "Immigration to Korea Edict", Liu Ying, who received the news in Weiyang Palace, was taken aback by this group that seemed to appear out of thin air!
Even Cao Shen, the prime minister who entered the palace to report the matter, was filled with astonishment and horror in his words.

"Of course."

"Since His Majesty issued an edict to persuade the landless people to move to North Korea, there will be no less than a million people who follow themselves in all parts of the world!"

"Among them, Qi, Chu, Huainan and other places are the most important; even in Guanzhong, there are also 'surplus sons' who have invited themselves to move to North Korea, no less than [-]..."

When he said this with a solemn face, Cao Can couldn't help but sit up straighter, his brows were full of solemnity as if a big battle was imminent.

But on the imperial steps, the young emperor sighed leisurely after a long period of absence.

"Yu Zi..."

"Yu Zi..."

With a dull expression, Liu Ying uttered a murmur, and Liu Ying couldn't help but smiled wryly and lowered her head, thinking secretly.

Yuzi, as the name suggests: redundant children.

To be precise, it is a redundant son.

If you want to find out what kind of group "Yu Zi" is, you have to mention a revolutionary decree drafted after the Han Dynasty.

——Separate household orders.

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang deeply realized that for a centralized regime dominated by prefectures and counties, the biggest unstable factor is the local powerful forces that cannot be lost.

In order to contain this force, Liu Bang also issued a series of highly targeted legal regulations at the beginning of the Han Dynasty.

The first to bear the brunt is naturally the original version of the "Karma leek" that is well-known in ancient and modern China and abroad, and is well-known to later generations: the mausoleum system.

That is: from the day when the emperor of Han succeeded to the throne, the construction of the imperial mausoleum began. At the same time, the mausoleums near the imperial mausoleum will also be constructed at the same time, or even earlier.

After the construction of the mausoleum is completed, it will be once a year and indefinitely to "forcibly relocate the heroes of the world into Guanzhong to strengthen the country".

To put it bluntly, in the name of "guarding the spirit of the emperor", the local tyrants and the big clans that may develop into tyrants are forced to move into Guanzhong and the feet of the emperor, so as to prevent any big families from developing into tyrants, clans, or even aristocratic families. possibility.

The mausoleum system curbed the possibility of the evolution of a large clan to a powerful family and aristocratic family, so how did the Han Dynasty curb the evolution from a small family to a large clan?

The answer is that revolutionary decree: the division of households.

In history, the Order of Separating Households, also known as "Gao Zu Shi Fu Lv", was included in the "Han Lv" and was a separate article "Fu Lv";
In this decree, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang stipulated that no matter it is an ordinary farmer's family, or a meritorious prince, a courtier or a noble relative, when the direct male blood of the head of the household reaches the age of "beginning", that is, the legal age of 17 After tax age, separation is mandatory.

In the words of later generations, it is to take out the household registration book separately and become the head of the household.

But such a 'separation' model also has a drawback.

——Since the family is to be divided, the bulk of the family property must be owned by the eldest sons and first-born sons who have the right to inherit;
In addition, groups with direct inheritance rights, such as the eldest son and the eldest son, are not included in the "Separate Household Order".

In this way, the problem arises.

As the head of the family, I shoulder the sacred mission of family continuation and ancestral hall prosperity, so I must ensure that the wealth accumulated in my area will be handed over to the heir, the eldest son, as much as possible.

And for those bastards and youngest sons who are bound to be separated and become strangers after three generations, 'I' is not willing to give them too much property.

Therefore, there is a high probability that 'I' will leave all fixed assets such as fields, houses, shops, etc., at least most of them, to the eldest son, and only distribute some money and food to the younger sons, so that they can find their own way out.

Under such behavioral logic, the group of "Yu Zi" came into being.

Yuzi has never been distinguished by family background or origin, whether he is the son of a farmer, a merchant, or a powerful and powerful family, as long as he is "not a descendant or an elder", he will inevitably usher in the day when he will become a "Yuzi".

The only difference is: the "Yuzi" who was born in a peasant household may spend all the money his parents gave him in a short period of time, and then live on the streets, mixing with the "Wanderer";
The "Yu Zi" who was born as a businessman will get a relatively high "separation fee" from his father, and then use this as capital to start his own business and start a business with difficulty;

As for the powerful and noble children, they are much luckier than the former two.

——After becoming a noble family, even if these people are "surplus sons", there is a high probability that they can get a small part of the family's real estate and a considerable amount of money;

Therefore, the choice of these people is undoubtedly much wider than the former two.

If you have the ability, you can use the money given by your father to start a business, and you will be rich;
Or buy an official and become an official, become a "big man" and seek an official career;
Or, use the money to buy hundreds or even thousands of acres of land, and then find some tenant farmers to become a small landlord;

If you don't have the ability, you can lie flat on the spot, sit and eat, and live your life carefree.

And these three types of "yuzi" groups are all "unstable factors" that the Han Dynasty strictly guards against and wants to kill.

—— Rangers, merchants, and: quasi-tyrannical!

That's right.

These "Yuzi" who came from famous families are the group with the greatest potential to become local tycoons.

Whether these people are doing business for merchants, annexing land, or "sitting and eating mountains and empty land", they will pose a threat to the rule of the Han Dynasty.

The most important thing is: the destructive power that these "second generations" who come from famous families and have broad horizons can exert is often not comparable to that of farmers and merchants...

Therefore, in fact, the mausoleum system and household division orders pursued by the Han Dynasty were essentially aimed at these "second generations" who came from prominent families and possessed huge social resources.

First, the division of households was ordered to pull these high-ranking households out of the shelter of the family, making them 'alone';
Then there was the mausoleum system, which moved those thorny heads who showed their "ambition" into Guanzhong, and suppressed them with imperial power;
At the same time, supplemented by the social ethos of all-round and endless hatred and contempt for merchants, these social instability factors in the feudal era were able to be strangled in the cradle.

But in the past, for the three groups of rangers, merchants, and tyrants, the Han Dynasty did not have the ability to "eliminate them all".

——The powerful children can be suppressed with the "Separate Household Order" and "Mausoleum System";
——After the merchants, they despise and suppress them with the whole social atmosphere;
However, the ranger group has never been effectively governed. Even if all the rangers are killed and slaughtered, this group will always "come back" in a very short period of time like mushrooms after rain.

In response to this problem, Liu Ying also thought about it: what is the essence of the Rangers?
Today, Liu Ying finally found the answer to this question.

——The essence of the rangers are those "surplus sons" who were born in poor families and peasant households.

Rangers can kill and ban them all, but as long as the "Yu Zi" group does not disappear, the rangers will never completely disappear in the Han Dynasty.

But then again: it is one thing to recognize the nature of things, and quite another to be able to effectively solve them.

Liu Ying, who has only been on the throne for only a few years, can see the essence of the 'Warriors'. Could it be that the founding king of the country, the former emperor Liu Bang, couldn't see the key here?

——You must know that the first emperor Liu Bang himself was born as a "local snake" who was both good and evil!
Also as a 'Yu Zi', I'm afraid Liu Bang's understanding of this matter is far more specific and comprehensive than Liu Ying's.

Now that he knew it, why didn't Liu Bang start to solve this matter?

Is it because you don't like it?
The answer is obviously not as simple as it seems on the surface.

The Han Dynasty was able to move from the local tyrants and quasi-tyrants to Guanzhong through the mausoleum system and the division of households. The strong mobilization ability is one aspect;

But the main reason is that this group is small enough;

Let's just say how many powerful people can come out of a county?

How many landlords can there be in a township?
As for the merchant group, although the number is far higher than that of the tyrants and quasi-tyrants, it is not difficult to "socially oppress" this group, depending on the universal values ​​of the past hundreds of years.

However, the ranger group represents the group of "surplus sons from peasant households" who were born at the bottom of the society, and its number covers almost every peasant household in the world!
That is: as long as this farmer has two or more sons, then in the future, this farmer will inevitably have more than one son!

However, the remaining sons of these peasant households did not have access to production tools such as fields and houses, nor did they receive considerable start-up capital;
In most cases, these people can only take ten days and a half months of rations and living expenses, so they bid farewell to their parents and "separate households" to make a living by themselves.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously not an easy task to prevent the group of "Yu Zi" from appearing among ordinary people.

In fact, the restrictive targets of the household division order have always been powerful and aristocratic.

Because only these people don't care about the property being divided up by their sons, and have the confidence to say, "Even if my property is divided equally among my ten sons, ten new tyrants will be born."

On the contrary, the division of households at the bottom level and concentrating property to the eldest son as much as possible is mostly driven by subjective wishes.

Under such circumstances, the only way to get no more "surplus sons" among the peasant households is to let the peasant households have the confidence to "divide the family from one wealthy family to several wealthy households".

Obviously, this goal, even in the new era of later generations, is still far from being achieved.

Therefore, "Yuzi" mostly stems from the current situation of peasant households, which cannot be solved theoretically;
To be precise: unless the family planning is implemented, and each family is limited to only one child or one son, the group of surplus sons born in rural households will never disappear.

In the past, the attention of the court of the Han family was never on 'how to eliminate the Yuzi', but on 'how to eliminate the Yuzi of the peasant household and become a ranger somehow'.

It's just that in the past, and even in the hundreds of years in the future, this question has never been able to get a reasonable answer.

But today, when Cao Shen went to Weiyang Palace to find Liu Ying with the report that "more than one million sons in the world signed up and expressed their willingness to immigrate to North Korea", Liu Ying unexpectedly discovered that the method of eliminating the ranger group seems to have been put aside. In front of myself...
Why did the remaining sons from peasant households become rangers after they were separated from each other?

The answer is: as long as there is a serious business that can fill the stomach, no one will be willing to go to the meeting!
What drives these simple and kind-hearted "Yuzi" from peasant households to become rangers has never been the slogan of "the great chivalrous man, serve the country and the people", but a very real problem: if you don't become rangers, you won't be able to eat enough.

In the past, if someone told Liu Ying that as long as the rest of the world could be fed, the ranger would disappear, then Liu Ying would definitely spit at that person in spite of contempt.

——Do you need to talk about this?
——If I really had the ability to 'feed millions of people on the spot', Maodun would have come to Chang'an long ago to clean my boots!
But now, the answer to the ranger's question was placed in front of Liu Ying in a very simple and straightforward manner.

Employment!

Surplus sons from peasant households need employment!
Employment channels other than rangers are needed to feed this group!
And in this era, the most "promising" business is nothing more than opening a hundred acres of wasteland and farming for generations...

"More than a million children..."

"It should be more than that!"

"North Korea does not need so many immigrants in a short period of time."

Thinking secretly, when Liu Ying raised her head again, her eyes were full of joy.

But seeing that under the imperial steps, Cao Shen was in a posture as if he was facing a big enemy, like the iron hooves of the Huns, who had already stepped on the outside of Chang'an city?
"Prime Minister..."

Subconsciously, she wanted to let out a soft cry, but when she came back to her senses, Liu Ying also hurriedly shut up, and did not disrupt the process of Cao Shen and the "fighting wits and courage in the air".

——In the cognition of most officials in the Han Dynasty today, Yu Zi is often directly equated with 'Wanderer'.

Especially those "yuzi" who have nothing and can't find three or five copper coins in their pockets will basically be regarded as an unstable factor of "the next second, the next second, he will go to the club".

In Cao Shen's eyes, the emergence of millions of sons in the world is equivalent to the emergence of millions of rangers!

In today's Han Dynasty, the population is only about 2000 million, and the brown society with 5.00% of the total population suddenly appeared. It is no wonder that Cao Shen is so close to the enemy.

But Liu Ying's attention has quietly shifted from "Yu Zi" and even "immigration to North Korea" to "immigration to the border".

"The matter of farming in North Korea, the prime minister and the princes in the court, how is the deal going?"

After leisurely asking, Liu Ying looked at Cao Shen with a smug look.

——The farming system and the corps system can also be regarded as Liu Ying's identity as a traverser, and they can make one of the few contributions that the Han Dynasty can make today...

(End of this chapter)